Hearing tests on wild whales
Credit: Photo by Alaska Department of Fish and Game Scientists published the first hearing tests on a wild population of healthy marine mammals. The tests...
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Forgetting may help improve memory and learning
(Madison, Wis.) June 20, 2018--Forgetting names, skills or information learned in class is often thought of as purely negative. However unintuitive it may seem, research...
Encrypted messages in biological processes
Credit: Ulf Andersson Vang Ørom RNA modifications can encrypt the RNA code and are responsible for a very sophisticated control of RNA function. A Danish-German...
Lonely and prolonged struggle for people with severe obesity
Credit: Sahlgrenska University Hospital The majority of people with severe obesity have a lonely and prolonged struggle with their weight. In one study spanning more...
Researchers find important new piece in the Huntington’s disease puzzle
Researchers find important new piece in the Huntington's disease puzzle In a new study, researchers from the University of Copenhagen have discovered a hitherto unknown...
Dry landscapes can increase disease transmission
In water-limited landscapes sick animals can have increased contact with healthy individuals, which can facilitate disease transmission. Scientists from the German Leibniz Institute for Zoo...
Using bloodstains at crime scenes to determine age of a suspect or victim
From the spatter analysis made famous in the TV show Dexter to the frequent DNA profiling of CSI and the real cases covered in the...
Microbial proteins could supplement animal feed, reduce land use and pollution
As the world's population swells, humans will have to figure out how to keep feeding livestock without using even larger tracts of land to grow...
Spacefood for cows
Deforestation, greenhouse gas emissions, biodiversity loss, nitrogen pollution - today's agricultural feed cultivation for cattle, pigs and chicken comes with tremendous impacts for the environme..
Chemical ‘caryatids’ improve the stability of metal-organic frameworks
Credit: B. Smit/EPFL "Metal-organic frameworks" (MOFs) are materials with nano-sized pores in their crystal structure. These pores allow MOFs to capture molecules so efficiently that...
New research shows why nutrition should be back on the table for surgical patients
Credit: Abbott Implementing a nutrition care program for malnourished surgical patients showed a nearly 50 percent reduction in readmission rates, according to new data from...
American swamp sparrows have sung the same songs for more than 1,000 years
Credit: Robert Lachlan American swamp sparrows may have sung the same songs for more than 1,000 years and passed them on through generations by learning,...
Birds have time-honored traditions, too
Credit: Photo by Robert Lachlan. DURHAM , N.C. -- What makes human cultural traditions unique? One common answer is that we are better copycats than...
Do bats adapt to gates at abandoned mines?
Abandoned mines can serve as roost sites for bats, but because the mines pose serious risks to humans, officials often install gates at their entrances....
Innovative autonomous system for identifying schools of fish
Credit: @IMDEA Networks Institute The University of Haifa (Israel) and two teams from the IMDEA Networks Institute have developed an innovative autonomous system, SYMBIOSIS, to...
